ROE v. COM.

Record No. 050909.

628 S.E.2d 526 (2006)

271 Va. 453

George Julious ROE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea C. Long (David E. Boone; Boone, Beale, Cosby & Long, on brief), Richmond, for appellant.

Eugene Murphy, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Judith Williams Jagdmann, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: HASSELL, C.J., LACY, KEENAN, KOONTZ, KINSER, and LEMONS, JJ., and COMPTON, S.J.


HASSELL, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether the Commonwealth may prosecute a criminal defendant for certain crimes when the circuit court had previously granted the Commonwealth's motion to dismiss indictments alleging the same crimes.

The facts relevant to our disposition of this appeal are not in dispute. In 2002, a grand jury for the City of Richmond indicted George Julious Roe for the following offenses: abduction, use of a firearm in the...

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